Books Quote by Melissa Febos

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

— Jeffery Deaver

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always…

— Blake Jenner

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died,…

— Caroline Kennedy

I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came…

— Dawn Richard

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be…

— Alice Walker

I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that, of course,…

— Robert Indiana

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted…

— Candace Bushnell

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

— George Murray

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels.…

— Ben Okri

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing…

— May Sarton

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed